Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-03-09
ADDITIONAL NEWS.


negro murderer, was taken from Jail by an
immense crowd Of citizens and hanged
from q trestle on . railroad bridge near
town. He made q desperate fight in his
cell against the crowd, being armed with
broom stick, which he welded with good
died game, refusing to make any declara-
ton. His victim was Vic Loggins, q
prominent merchant of Winona, whom he
killed last month.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has pardoned
Joseph H. Evans, an aged polygamist, who
has already served two years in the Utah
penitentiary, and Oscar T. Baldwin, the
embezzlng bank cashier of Newark, N. j.,
already at large on q wri. Of habeas cor
pus.
WALTER c. CAMP, Of New Haven, has
been arrested in New York for attempting
the life Of George Condit Smith, in Madi-
son Square. The accused has for several
years coached the Yale football team. 1t
appears that he was once engaged 10 an
heiress, who Discarded him and married
Smith, so that he then threatened the lat
ter's life.
On the morning of the 7th fire broke out
in the second floor of the Davenport Ga
settle building, spreading to the composing
room on the third floor, which, with its
contents, was entirely destroyed. The en-
tire building was flooded with water and
the machinery and stock badly damaged.
The fire communicated to the roof Of the
postoffce building adjoining, but the build
ing was saved. Both were insured.
EARLY on the morning Of the 9Th inst.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was attacked
with vomiting. and then fell into an uncon-
scious condition. It is feared that apo
plexy has brought him to his death bed.
He was in his usual health up to the hour
of the attack.
ON the 4th inst, J. d, Dunning, one of
the Oldest residents and at one time q
prominent business man of Aurora, Ill.,,
died of old age. Two hours after his wife
died from the same cause, and on the
same day daughter residing in another
portion of the county, expired after . long
illness. The three were buried at Aurora
on the 9Th.
By o recent order Of the President the
military reservation of Fort Colville, Wash
ington Territory, has been transferred to
the Department of the Interior for dispo-
sition under the act of July 5, 1884, it be-
ing no longer of use for military purposes.
MRS. BECKER, Of Cincinnati, who fraud
ulently obtained pension, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for two years in the
jail at Dayton, Ohio.
THE Damoorofia ynaVohora nf fho 1nfnr-
State Railway Commission are likely to
be W. r. Morrison, of Illinois; Grant, of
Colorado, and Bragg, Of Alabama.
A GOOD deal of dissatisfaction is devel-
oping about the order by which trade dol
lars are to be redeemed Only at New York
and San Francisco, thus compelling parties
at all other points to pay expressage. This
action, it is said, is in direct violation Of
law.
AT West Newton, Pennsylvania, were
found the corpses of John Niebert and Mrs.
Belle Ellsworth lying side by side. 1t is
believed to be a case Of double suicide.
CHARLES J. PETERSON, known to thou
sands of families as the publisher of Peter
sons Ladies' Magazine, died at his home
in Philadelphia, on the 5th inst.
AT Lanoke, Arkansas, Rev. John White,
colored, aged 102 years, married Edie Smith,
aged 20. White was born in South Caro-
lima l7s5, and has been preaching eighty
one years.
PRESIDENT GREvy intends TO send o
special envoy to Berlin to congratulate
Emperor William on the approach of his
ninetieth birthday.